Delivery Manager

**_Please note: this is a fully remote role welcoming applicants from anywhere within South Africa, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and Europe_**

**About Steer73**
- Steer73 are a Digital Transformation Agency. We work with a wide variety of clients to understand their needs, shape their solutions, and deliver the system. In many cases we are the client’s in-house product, design, and development team.- We run as a distributed network of teams, operating out of various locations around the world.**The Role**- The Delivery manager will work to ensure the team’s success in delivery, primarily by helping to identify and especially remove impediments impacting the current project team’s ability to deliver.- The Delivery Manager will support multiple product managers and will need to be able to serve as the Scrum Master for the project teams, when needed.-
- This is a key role in our business. They will need to demonstrate excellent organisational and stakeholder management skills. This role will be required to work cross-functionally to manage delivery and will need to report into the Senior Management team on a regular basis.**The most important thing**
- There are two important aspects to understand about this role. Firstly, it is very hands on. You will personally be getting things done including creating project plans. Secondly, your job will be to empower the product team and remove impediments to their ability get stuff done. It is not a project management command/control role. Your success will be judged by how effectively you empower the team.Key Responsibilities
- Constantly looking to identify impediments early, actively working to resolve those impediments, and escalates when needed.
- Management and tracking of project/product dependencies.
- Management and tracking of all high-integrity commitments.
- Creation of project plans.
- Provides proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments, and progress.
- Works to minimize meetings and ceremonies, but when they are needed, they are well-run and efficient.
- Encourages a culture of team-driven decision making and commitment. Encourages team trust and facilitates team building events.
- Where appropriate, coach the teams to improve collaboration and outcomes (coaching is the primary responsibility of teams’ managers)

Basic Qualifications
- Good general understanding of how large-scale software systems are designed, built, tested, and deployed into the hands of customers.
- Strong understanding of delivery and go-to-market methods and metrics.
- Good general understanding of the role of product managers, UI/UX designers, developers, quality assurance, and DevOps.
- At least 2 years of experience working with common Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification

Company Culture
- Steer73 is a small company with targets to grow rapidly over the next 3 years. An important factor in our hiring is finding people who share our values and who will thrive in our business. We look for people who want to get things done, are comfortable making decisions, take ownership of their roles and want to progress.- Joining Steer73 offers you an opportunity to work on high-profile, meaningful projects working with clients from a wide range of industries.
- Finally, these are a few more points worth noting about us and the role:
- This is a fully remote role, working for a remote-first organisation.
- We’re location-agnostic.
- Career progression at Steer73 is based on merit.
- We’re devoted to continuous improvement in everything we do.
- Join a culturally diverse and inclusive team.

About Steer73

We use technology to bring truly transformative improvements to our clients’ businesses.